Sho Sato, Professor at UC Berkeley’s Law School, Dies

Sho Sato, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former chairman of the California Law Revision Commission, died Sunday in Oakland of what a university spokesman said was “a long illness.” He was 63.

Sato, who worked with Army intelligence in World War II and then graduated from Harvard Law School, was a state deputy attorney general from 1952 to 1955, when he joined the Boalt Hall faculty at Berkeley.

He served on the Law Revision Commission from 1960 to 1969 and was chairman in 1968-69. He founded the Japanese-American Collaborative Legal Studies program at Boalt, which helps Japanese law scholars do research in the United States while their American counterparts study in Japan.